When I told the clown joke to Nelson, he said,
“The scary part is, how do they know he’s a clown,
not just some guy dressed up in a clown suit?”

In an advertisement for a sex pill, the various couples enjoying pre-sex activities / (riding in a hot-air balloon, bowling, clinking their glasses of wine) may be—are they?—

A year or two ago
I drove my car
to one of the half-dozen
places I go and a spider

And like Caravaggio, I am my own savior
rent by my own hand. Depicted:

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Poet-pig who knows me, in the blindness, in the bog
Waiting for Your Hunger, allow me to ask you
Lord of pigs and men:
Did you hear it by chance, or were you aware

Saint Leonard of Noblac, d. 559,
With your codex skin
And shark-meat ass, you are here
Floating in the cold air like blood, you are